Why has Spain’s PM known as a snap election?

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez confirmed Spain will likely be heading to the polls on 29 November, after Sanchez’s Socialist occasion, which is presently heading a minority authorities, didn’t go housing reforms within the Spanish Congress.

Sanchez faces an uphill battle in his bid for re-election with polls exhibiting Sánchez’s Socialist occasion is trailing the conservative Folks’s Celebration – which many count on to aim to type a authorities with the far-right Vox.

In his assertion saying the election, Sanchez warned Spaniards about what he known as the “extreme-right wave” being seen in different international locations and mentioned Spain ought to proceed to be a worldwide instance of “peace, feminism and prosperity”.

BBC correspondent Man Hedgecoe studies.

Comply with the BBC’s dwell protection following Sanchez’s announcement.